Guild Wars 2

Nay of the Ether.8913:

Reanimator : Whenever a nearby creature dies, a jagged horror is summoned that does bleeding with each of it’s attacks. The jagged horror dies after 15 seconds if not slain in combat. When this minion dies it can rally a nearby downed ally<— (cooldown 90 seconds) and grants the master 5% life force <—-(10 second cd)
notes: There can be multiple jagged horrors, maximum of 3. They will not trigger any relevant minion traits (such as vampiric, death nova, ect). They have no natural hp degen but they also have no natural hp regen outside of combat. If the 3 cap is hit, no new ones can be summoned until those 3 are killed.

I initially started this post as a joke, but I honestly like my idea now lol.

Jagged horror death nova is a very nice part of being a MM master. Now if they died and perhaps healed in a small AoE I can go with this as my minions need some desperate survivability in PVP

I do rather like the token idea. the ability to bring 3 to 5 up after stacking them like charges would give us MM’s a very frightening combat mechanic. “Suddenly flesh rats!”

It’s not horrible, but it’s far from amazing. If you take Flesh of the Master they have far more HP. They also explode when they die if you take the death nova trait, giving poison and a sizable amount of damage.

Along with the slight toughness gain I DO believe ((Don’t take my word for it)) They siphon health along with your other minions if you take the lower tier siphon traits.

They are decent for MM builds, suck for EVERYTHING else.

Also a while back I ran apothecary+wells and marks build. I could EASILY keep 5 up with mark of blood and well of blood. It was rather funny.

Thank you for the imput. I’m gonna miss a minion that auto-responds on attack due to it being ranged. ((It seems flesh golem and bone minions still have issues picking up a target for me.))

I also pondered running Dagger off-hand but losing spinal shivers and in turn some critical boon removal seemed like a really bad move.

As for the WoP Fetid consumption I never thought of that combo… Either way you lose a minion sadly.

Title says it all. Basically I’ve been getting run by conditions lately in PVP so I decided to swap out my blood fiend for Consume conditions. I really dislike it but my build lacks any sort of condition clear aside from putrid mark… Which requires me to get near and or on top of an enemy that, while spamming conditions probably has me crippled and or immobile.

So my question is, how much do you lose not using the blood fiend?

He’s a dragon lieutenant he’s not supposed to be a push over like he is now. What he is now is basically a mockery. There are risen giants harder then he is.

On the case with bubbles. No the dragon’s are not friends.

Pro-tip Ascended weapons can drop from champion chests. At which case you choose your stat combo and go.

So no you’re not forced to level crafting =P

So i’m getting close to being able to craft my first ascended weapon and I was looking at the laurel vendor Now i’ve already bought the dowl i’m going to need… Do ascended weapons not use discoveries? Do you just buy the recipe and craft it?

I just watched a SOR raid run away when they had more then us O.O

Lord Kuru.3685:

Player Character.9467:

They’re not locked to 1, rings/accessories/amulets are all available via laurels and wvw badges. Fractal completion and wvw rank chests can give rings. Guild missions can give earrings, the commendations they give do to. etc.

I’ve never heard of anyone receiving an Ascended ring from a WvW rank chest. Are you sure it’s possible?

it is, it’s a slim chance but it’s possible… Give them time, instead of tossing a metric F’ton of stuff into the game that con spring a ton of bugs for you to * at them about they’re adding little by little, designing more… Then adding more… They’re not going to leave certain proffessions worthless, be patient.

Just got through W2Z2 my god was that the longest, most tedious grind i’ve ever done

Basicly I just suicide bombed the map, letting my team see where all the hostile crap was… But my god, the length of it… I almost don’t want the achievements.

No idea i’m in SAB atm so I can’t check

Rajani Isa.6294:

WereDragon.6083:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

seems like taking away the challenge.

I’m not here for the challenge, if I want a challenge ill go play PVP against other humans. This is tedious and I simply want the achievements

Easier achieves mean more account bonuses and free loot, more money from the chests. It’s a means to an end. Spend a little bit now make more in the long run.

EDIT: not including the fact I get to keep every bauble. I can get any of the skins I need without having to pay for replay tokens, meaning more money from BLT

How does more baubles mean more money from BLT?

Are not all the purchasable skins account bound?

Check the BLT just type in “super”

And if the topic hasn’t guessed yet I think this item is kitten, provides a clear and distinct disadvantage, as I pointed out through each post and it SHOULD NOT EXIST.

You can also suicide rush checkpoints for your team, skipping them all the way to the end.

Evans.6347:

Your bored because of your own greed. Frankly I don’t know why anyone would feel sympathy for that.

When did I ask for sympathy, i’m simply astonished Anet let us have the option for infinite lives after claiming trip mode was the ultimate challenge.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

seems like taking away the challenge.

I’m not here for the challenge, if I want a challenge ill go play PVP against other humans. This is tedious and I simply want the achievements

Easier achieves mean more account bonuses and free loot, more money from the chests. It’s a means to an end. Spend a little bit now make more in the long run.

EDIT: not including the fact I get to keep every bauble. I can get any of the skins I need without having to pay for replay tokens, meaning more money from BLT

Just bought the coin on the store and you have no idea how easy it made the SAB there is no difficult or hard anymore, it’s just tedious… infinite lives. Wow anet.

Horrible they could have added a little 5 point achieve to it or somthing… Anyways, thanks for the reply

So I went in for the first time today, of course having cleared all the chieves in april when it was first released. The whole area is changed, with people actually able to congregate. I started noticing the flags around and it became my mission to get them, hoping there may be something befidn them. Well after tagging all of them through alot of trial and error, I found nothing other then my character dancing.

Did I happen to miss something or are these only for play?

That’s disappointing… Couldn’t they lower the damage slightly on nova… Since taking the trait means your running MM by default… it wouldn’t hurt many other builds to my knowledge.

The MAIN MM build is 20/0/20/20/0 the last 10 points you either put into death magic for minion death nova. Or into blood magic for minion condition leech.

You main weapon will be a staff, secondary is USUALLY Axe/Focus the secondary weapon can be swapped pretty fluidly for what you might want more of. Focus gives you a regen/vulnerabilty and a VERY crucial 3 boon burn + chilled… I’ve watched people melt after hitting them with that.

You can also run a warhorn for daze ((to interrupt heals)) and locust swarm for a tiny bit of damage + cripple and speedboost.

Dagger makes a great, albeit, subpar alternative to focus. You can transfer 3 of your conditions and blind to a target and a weak bleed + weakness, good for keeping your minions alive.

The minions you’ll want are bloodfiend by default, bone minions ((These little kittens crush when you blow them up and if you have the death-nova trait with 30 in death magic they have poison tacked on)) bone fiend for oncall immobile then either shadow fiend of fleshwurm ((I prefer flesh worm because it’s VERY tank and has the stun-break warp tacked onto him))

The gear you usually want to focus on is full invaders/sentinel gear Pwr/vit/toughness This gives you some decent frontloaded damage and a TON of survivabiltiy… Remember your death shroud is 66% of your MAXIMUM hp

P.S listen to Bhawb the dude knows his stuff on minions.

My main USED to be a thief, i know full well any Chanel or tether skills stick to me in stealth.

I ran a build early on in my necro’s life that was wells and staff, with tons of +healing gear, it actually healed people pretty well.

I was called a hacker exactly three times in WvW today cause I would hang out outside towers, planting my fleshwurm ON the portal to the tower… I figured, even if he barely partakes in the fight, he can suck up a condition every 10 seconds and also supplies a meager 20 toughness just for being up… Well it turned out that was a godsend as I was attacked by multiple zergs that completely ignored my wurm at the gate, i’d let them get me low, then warp in… This it turns out kitten es ALOT of people off XD

He’s earned a permanent spot on my bar and in combat.

Alos bone minions are god mode, most ignore them and if they don’t get AoE’ed down they crush people. I had a glass cannon thief on me today. My marks got him to around 75% HP and my detonated bone minions downed him.. Most likely with a LITTLE help from bone fiend and blood fiend, but still it’s amazing burst don’t ignore them.

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

I think that MM is a God XD
’m a MM ( in both gw1 and gw2 ).
I got 5 80es characters ( MM necro , trapper ranger , demolisher engineer , cleric guardian , signet/shout/banner warrior ).
I think that MM is the best one and I’m the last man standing in dungeons.
In PvP , I can kill any one ( I killed 4 players at once while camping ).
You just need to know how to control them and keep them alive.
My build >> http://tinyurl.com/opjsdrw
Soldier armor will grant you much Toughness and some Vitality so you won’t worry if they killed ur minions.
begin the fight with staff ( land all marks ) then switch to dagger/focus ( you will get might when switching ) , use 4th and 5th skills , 3rd to immobilize your foe , transform to DS and use 5th skills and 3rd ( to increase 5th skill damage by 200% ) , after that use 4th skill to heal your minions , 2nd to tele to your foe , return to your normal form and spam dagger chain attack , then switch to staff …… and so on.. ( This is how I play )
(Remember that Dagger chain attack is the strongest attack for necros even than axe )

Wow i never picked up on the 3 5 combo in deathshroud. I guess I still have alot to learn. =D These tips are gold though

Bhawb.7408:

Just a note, Shadow Fiend has 2nd highest DPS (Flesh Wurm is third).

This i did not know.

I have been falling in love with my wurm. (no pun intended) Being able to place him out of the way, toss him on a ledge, let him bombard. He’s almost constant siphoning since no one really notices him if you place him right. Then you have the disorient effect of warping while bringing out of their stun.

Atleast I know i’m on the right track with gear as invader’s is identical to Soldier’s.

I really do love the minion build I hope it gets lots of love, mainly some more minion HP.

Hey everyone, what’s the current Meta for MM in PVP I really adore minions and the spec that comes with it, even if they’re not FULLY viable without a few buffs.

Currently i’m running 20/0/20/30/0 with full invader’s gear (Pwr tough Vit)
BF BM BF SF FG Basically all minions.

Axe Focus
Staff

If anyone has any tips i’d GREATLY apritiate input I really do love fighting with minions.

The shadow fiend feels EXTREMELY out of place with the rest of your minions and the flesh golem BARELY fits in with them.

I support this change… There is a difference between challenge and impractical. You can but octagon shaped tires on a car. Sure you can call it a challenge… But your suspensions kittened when you get to where you’re going anyways.

9/10 those pants really bring the set together with the wittle skulls =D

I’d buy some minion altering books from the gem store in a heartbeat. Always wanted just normal zombies. I feel more like a flesh-shaper then a raiser of undead.

The only reason people dislike logan is because everyone has a thing for… What was that pathetikittentle asuran’s name?

Nerf was well deserved, farmers where crashing both the BLTC and gem exchange.

What do you miss out on if you don’t make one of the invasion events, due to logging in late or stupid overflows?

I do believe this topic can be hashed into three separate groups.

Group A: The people who have beaten her.

Group B: Those who cannot beat her due to the string of bugs she has, but otherwise could legitimately beat her if she was functioning correctly.

Group C: Those who will never beat her or care not too.

The big issue with this topic i group A is mixing group B and C together.

Her being bugged is not a functioning argument for difficulty, it’s exactly what it is a bug. Playing baseball with water noodles isn’t an up in difficulty, it’s a broken mechanic that would need fixing.

And for note, I did beat her to dodge the group A that will surely quote my post and tell me I suck and need to get better. =P

Sylentir.8913:

I beat her on a full Rabid engineer (No zerker gear whatsoever). I didn’t have any blocks equipped, nor did I have any invincibility equipped. I did have AoE blind, but I didn’t use that nearly as much as I could have. I still finished the boss.

Yes, the fight is hard. Yes, fixing the arena to not screw with your camera would be good. Yes, making the AoE more visible would be nice. Yes, bugfixes would be wonderful.

No, she doesn’t need a nerf. No, the 1-shot skills don’t need to become 2-shot, 3-shot, or 4-shot. No, the orbs don’t need removed.

The fight is fair. You stand in the AoE, and you die. Instant-death mechanics teach you quickly to both plan and react. There’s a pattern for a reason; follow it. You have the capability to learn, so get using it! Saying its cheap is like saying getting hit by a car in real life is cheap: why the hell are you still standing there, looking at the swiftly approaching vehicle?! Get out of the dang way way! Sure, sometimes you don’t see it at first, but that’s why you are supposed to look.

Um, several times the range-immune orbs pulled me into the shadows while I was attempting her. So yeah, when the car PULLS you to it in real life your analogy would be a VERY very good example. But our vehicles atm lack magic suction.

EDIT: Also, unless you turn post processing off, her blind makes every bit of watching and learning the pattern defunct. If you can barely see the zones as is.

Also, I did beat her, after 15 tries fighting through the bugs she brings with her to the plate.

Edit 2: This is an amazing fight with some half decent mechanic attempts. The bugs and poor sight issues simply send the difficulty through the roof.

I’m running MM in WvW around 30k HP and minions that suck up HP I am almost unkillable in most situations. I’m REALLY enjoying it so far.

She’s beatable, just stupidly broken.

So i wandered across this video in youtube where a guy breaks down just how deep Thurmonova could ACTUALLY be. The theory seems kitten strong, even more so that we have steam creatures spawning in with Aetherblade now.

Around 30 minutes but it’s pretty mind blowing.

Edit: To give some context it points out that Ellen Keil wants to figure out what happened at thurmonova.

Thurmonova has steam creatures that are being yanked out of their reality.

~~HERE BE SPOILERS~~

Steam creatures are explained in the asuran personal story as soldiers from your alternate self’s reality.

During the fight in the personal story, your alternate self mentions the battle of Divinity’s Reach

We are now starting to see steam creatures spawning with the Aetherblades during some events.

And the current living story is taking place IN Divinity’s reach for the Queen’s jubilee

I’m rather interested in this, even if it’s just a reference.

because you’re playing a free, subscription-less game, and for them feed their families they have to make some money someplace, get over it.

So they INDEED offer you Lion’s arch, so you don’t HAVE to pay to get access to this stuff, at the same time, they offer a paid place because they can.

Awe.1096:

QQ train. I am an engi with full exotic (3 ascended) knights gear (all pieces are knights only weapon is zerker). Was standing on the point in WvW capping flag. And then something happened. Fast. I stared at the monitor (???), then checked combat log.

Steal (2500) -> C&D (6000) -> Backstab (14000) -> C&D (3000)

Dear thieves. I really really really dont want to hate you. Please show me how. Explain me the math behind this. I am sad

Alright first off i don’t run a backstab build never have never want to. But OP you are really setting yourself up for some tough hits here, a lack of screenshots with some fictional numbers means this can be extremely mis construde… For instance.

I was fighting a warrior in WvW and he suddenly smacked me for 20,000, 50,000 and then 1.8mill. Fictional numbers are easy to make up to prove a point. Now i’m not trying to trash you OP just saying, to avoid incoming flak use SS’s next time.

This feels like alot of Evon supporter backlash for the butt whooping they got in the election.

They said the fractal has already been designed and worked on. It would be a waste of resources and money to build it and not release it. We’ll see it.

So here’s a super crazy idea… If the dev team liked working on the abadon fractal. Why don’t we make everyone happy, the gnash supporters the kiel supporters and the entire dev team and release both.

“In a show of wonderful sportsmanship it seems Evon Gnashblade will still be putting research into the abadon project with his plundered, pirate booty. Though he has stated giving out the other bonuses would be far to cost ineffective for is company, The Black Lion Trading Company.”

Not to mention it fits into Evon’s character as this would be an amazing public relations move for TBLTC

Holy crap, look at that, EVERYONE WINS!

EDIT: Come on guys if they’re already coded at set up just flip the switch and toss them in. The kiel supporters win, the GW1 lore buffs win, the dev team didn’t waste time on content we’ll never see, this is the most logical option.

As Spock would say “It’s only logical.”

The number one way to shut me down is to stop cloak and daggers. Not only does it stifle my healing and condition removal from the shadow arts tree, it severely limits my damage from sneak attacks. It’s going to be a dance, stop the CnD’s and keep the condition purged off you as much as possible.

Also on the point of “Why is she trying to give the loot back to the aetherblades.”
She’s A: setting a trap for them
B: Returning the loot to the rightful owners, in the sense she’s giving it back to the people the aethers STOLE IT FROM. You’re right the Aether’s are pirates and therefore stole it from someone to begin with, they didn’t just spawn magical treasure out of their kittens.

I keep seeing the argument. “Evon is a real Pirate” And “Kiel is a good two-shoes” But you gotta remember these two kittens will be in charge of our HOME BASE regardless of pirates or not, do you want a lying, backstabbing merchant setting your prices in Lion’s Arch and making decisions based on “His” Best interest.

A vote for Evon is a vote for RNG and the Lotto… Atleast Kiel fights for Lion’s Arch.

Not hard, D/P and a few of the initive regen traits. Done